In health care and education, being “trauma-informed” has become a popular aspiration. As leaders, providers, educators, and individuals, to be "trauma-informed" is to recognize the pervasiveness of ...

Like many powerful ideas, the essence is simple: Those dealing with people who have a mental illness or addiction problem have to start asking what has happened to the person who may be causing the ...

Since the landmark adverse childhood experiences study nearly 30 years ago, it has become clear that childhood trauma is widespread in our communities. The problem is so pervasive that in 2019 the ...

Christina Heris worked with the Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future study on the sub-project "Developing a culturally responsive trauma-informed public health emergency response framework for ...